About

Alex leads Technology at the Interledger Foundation and focuses on lowering the barrier to entry into the Interledger ecosystem while driving the adoption of the web standards powering the Interledger network. With a background in web technologies and developer advocacy, he's helping organizations in the ecosystem build developer-friendly products while engaging with the developer community at large.

Session

Alex Lakatos

Pay the web forward, one standard at a time

Web Monetization is a W3C Standard proposal using the Interledger Protocol to fix the unfair, platform-dominated creator payment system. It provides an open, seamless way for developers to earn money—sometimes with a single line of HTML. The talk also explains how new Web Standards are created.